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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Christmas for Quilters 3 (+ giveaway)

So, once again, here is a button you can grab for your blog. The button links back to the original intro post for this series and, over time, that post will link to all the subsequent posts in the series so just leave the button lying around when friends and relatives are around and hope that they click through and get some great ideas of what to get you for Christmas. And just in case none of your relatives are showing any interest in any of these great ideas, there's a brand new paper piecing pattern giveaway at the end of this post (and hopefully all the CG4Q posts will have giveaways).

This week I wanted to suggest a Christmas gift I only found out about last night. Now you will have noticed the new trend on flickr and in blogland for paper pieced blocks and bees with themes such as kitchenalia, mail, doors, windows. There are a few people at the forefront of this trend, principally in my mind, Penny Sewtakeahike, Ayumi Pink Penguin and Kerry verykerryberry. Kerry has been drafting her own patterns for a while now and is about to start releasing them for sale in her Etsy shop. There will be whole series of these patterns with different themes, all of which will make wonderful gifts for quilters. Kerry's first pattern is the paper pieced winter woolies pdf pattern; hat, scarf and gloves. Here is a wonderful wall hanging Kerry made using this pattern.

If any of you would be interested in winning this pattern, I managed to twist Kerry's arm into letting me give three away as part of my Christmas for Quilters giveaways and the requirements of the giveaway are at the end of the post. If you have already bought the pattern by the time the giveaway ends and then win one, Kerry will let you have her next pattern free instead. So if you just can't wait, feel free to go ahead and buy the pattern now.

And now I need to pick out four international and four Brit winners of the various and hugely generous Aurifil gifts bestowed on you by Signor Aurifil, Alex Veronelli. All the winners were picked by Random Number Generator.

Firstly, the winners of the Ultra Collections:

The international winner is:

The Brit winner is:

Secondly the winners of the Designer Collections:

The international winner is:

And the Brit winner is:

And finally the winners of the boxes of six Aurifil spools:

The international winners are:

And the Brit winners are:

Congratulations to all the winners. Please email me with your name, your comment number and your mailing address so that the Aurifil threads can be mailed out to you.

To enter today's giveaway to have a chance of winning one of Kerry's paper pieced winter wollies patterns, you have three chances. The giveaway will close a week today (26 October) at which point the next CG4Q post will go up and a new giveaway announced.

Oh my Kerry and Amy, those are two adorable versions of the same pattern. Love it Kerry!!! I've never seen a Kerry-designed block I didn't love (the colour wheel of pencils was my all-time fav..uhh, that was yours, right?). I really love everyday stuff - all the kitchen things, furniture, sewing machines...etc.

oooh I'm gutted I didn't win the aurifil box! Love Kerry's pattern and I have it already of course because I'm a creepy stalker. I am going to make it for my next bee month. I feel so clever now I don't have to come up with a skiing design myself yay!

I couldn't agree with you more re: Penny, Ayumi and Kerry. Their work is so incredibly inspiring and just perfect in every way! I don't think Kerry could go wrong with anything she designs... but I will be selfish and would fall out of my chair if she did a cello. :)

I agree with the above comments about more Christmas patterns to go with this one, what a great little quilt that might make! Or a sewing machine pattern.. or little girl's dresses? I can dream, right?

I suggested to Kerry that she create a pattern of Archie - now who wouldn't want a fabric version of ATWD?!!! Oh, cat lovers, apparently...well, in that case, I'd love a bare tree against a sunset/sunrise. Not sure my skills would be up to sewing it but I'd have a go!

My BFF's grandson is a competitive fencer and she is always complaining that she can never find fabrics or designs related to the sport of fencing. She would be thrilled if she could make a quilt of fencing designs for her grandson.

Of course I'm following! Its a wonderful little blog :) I need to blog more on mine, but thanks to some confusion within moving everythings in boxes here and there :S so I cant acomplish anything to blog about

I'd like to see more Christmas patterns - anything cute to decorate with, and maybe some other seasonal wall hangings the same size as this one so I have something to hang up each month in the spot I'm making for this one!